No candidate will risk being linked with a "suspected" addict — but a — Hunter S. Thompson

"The truth about Hunter S. Thompson" at CNN (12 October 2007)"

"Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."

"The kids are turned off from politics, they say. Most of em dont even want to hear about it. All they want to do these days is lie around on waterbeds and smoke that goddamn marrywanna... yeah, and just between you and me Fred thats probably all for the best."

"The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy."

"The ugly fallout from the American Dream has been coming down on us at a pretty consistent rate since Sitting Bulls time — and the only real difference now, with Election Day 72 only a few weeks away, is that we seem to be on the verge of ratifying the fallout and forgetting the Dream itself."

"I may sound a little black, but Im really pretty well adjusted."